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Bill Delahunt: “The military commissions will always be a second-rate court system set up for illegitimate purposes.”

On the recordJuly 7, 2009
The military commissions will always be a second-rate court system set up for illegitimate purposes.
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Bill Delahunt
Massachusetts

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Delahunt criticizes military commissions as inferior and illegitimate.

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